SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 113, 13 March 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 27 March 2000 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 113, 13 March 2000 FRONT PAGE USA/CANADA/GREAT BRITAIN - POLITICAL ABUSE OF ECHELON p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES HACKING - SOME HONEST STORIES IN THE PRESS p.2 WORLDWIDE "SCIENCE-FREE" DRUG POLICY DEBATE p.3 MORE INTELLIGENCE-RELATED BOOKS p.4 PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS & THEIR TARGETS p.5 EXPLOSIVES - NIJ Test Protocol. p.6 ASYMMETRIC WARFARE - A US Contribution. p.7 CODES - US Abandons Bernstein Restrictions. p.8 TORTURE - An OVC Report for Victims. p.9 PEOPLE GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID SHAYLER p.10 RUSSIA - VYACHESLAV TIKHOMIROV p.11 USA - John A. Gordon. p.12 SWITZERLAND - Bruce Rappaport. p.13 CYPRUS/SAUDI ARABIA - Rakan Khalied Hathleen. p.14 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 MAY 2000 p.15 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - "GET DEUTCH" & "GET O'NEIL" AT THE CIA p.16 - NO PLACE LIKE HOME ... FOR HACKER ANTICS p.17 - PROBLEMS JUST WON'T STOP IN LOS ANGELES p.18 - Millennium Eve Terror Campaign Story. p.19 - Chinese Military Affairs at NDU. p.20 - Further Anti-ICBM Trouble. p.21 - GAO Criticizes Pentagon Urban Intelligence. p.22 - Lee Case Now Dividing Senators. p.23 - Secret Service Class Action. p.24 CANADA - New Anti-Hacker Defense Unit. p.25 GREAT BRITAIN - THE FRIENDS OF PETER MANDELSON p.26 - New GCHQ Headquarters. p.27 IRELAND - DUBLIN WANTS A DEATH SQUAD INQUIRY p.28 FRANCE - INTERPOL SPROUTS ITS OWN COMPUTER WINGS p.29 NETHERLANDS - SURINAM'S DIPLOMATIC COCAINE TRAFFICKING p.30 GERMANY - Four Turk Intelligence Agents Expelled. p.31 NORWAY - GLOBUS-II IS HAVE STARE ... IS "STAR WARS" p.32 - Mossad Did It ... Without Norwegian Help. p.33 KOSOVO - A "DIRTY LITTLE WAR" DRAGS ON p.34 HUNGARY - Successfully Intelligence Privatization. p.35 POLAND - Another FBI "Clone". p.36 SLOVAKIA - Germany Withdraws from Kovac Case. p.37 ROMANIA - Securitate Archives Set Up. p.38 ESTONIA - New KGB List. p.39 RUSSIA - We Need Our KGB. p.40 MEXICO - Even the New PFP Is Corrupt. p.41 CUBA - An Older, Bolder Castro Worries the CIA. p.42 BOLIVIA - Drugs, It's All in the Family. p.43 CAMEROON - Please Help the Police. p.44 TURKEY - Stoking the Fires Against Hezbollah. p.45 ISRAEL - GOVERNMENT PROMOTION OF NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY p.46 - Taking Note of US Views on China. p.47 JORDAN - Bin Laden Link in Planned Jordan and US Attacks. p.48 SYRIA - END GAME FOR ASSAD SENIOR p.49 AFGHANISTAN - TYING BIN LADEN, JORDAN & USA TOGETHER p.50 PAKISTAN - Unhealthy to Be an Opposition Lawyer. p.51 INDIA - Back to the Drawing Board for Intelligence. p.52 CHINA - Spies in Hong Kong and Macau Long Ago. p.53 TAIWAN - Waiting for the Election Computer Crash. p.54 ASIA - "Buy a Gurkha" Anti-Piracy Policy. p.55 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 1 USA/CANADA/GREAT BRITAIN POLITICAL ABUSE OF ECHELON ...(cut)... NSA, CIA and other US officials recently acknowledged that the Echelon system does exist ... but it does not give intelligence to US companies. That may be entirely true ... officially, but as Margaret Newsham has shown, Echelon was built by Lockheed and Ford Company and employees of these and other "secure" US firms help run the system. If "Lockheed employee" Newsham can listen in on personal conversations of Senator Strom Thurmond, it shouldn't be too hard to get sensitive economic intelligence to interested "private parties" working with the US Department of Defense. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 4 MORE INTELLIGENCE-RELATED BOOKS In our previous issue, we seriously diminished our backlogs of intelligence-related books to mention to our readers (see, "Books - Recent Releases", INT, n. 112 7). Below are more. "Intelligence Essentials for Everyone", by the Joint Military Intelligence College (1999, Government Printing Office, Washington, 92 pp., œ6.50), lays out for businesses world-wide, in clear, concise language, a logical approach to creating an intelligence infrastructure that is much like the government's. "Guide Pratique - Intelligence Economique et Gestion des Connaissances" (Handbook - Economic Intelligence and Knowledge Management), by "Veille" magazine (2000, Paris, 225 pp.). "Cassidy's Run - The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas", by David Wise (2000, Random House, New York), is the story of Sgt. Joe Cassidy who, in 1959, became an FBI double-agent giving Russian GRU officer Polikarpov real and false US nerve gas secrets. Cassidy and Operation Shocker continued for 21 years. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 10 GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID SHAYLER The Paris-based MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler (see "Defending the Realm - MI5 and The Shayler Affair", INT, n. 112 7, and "Great Britain - David Shayler", INT, n. 110 7), has accused British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of leading a "totalitarian regime" after the Home Office moved to silence him in the civil courts by claiming damages for everything he has said and written about MI5 and MI6. Shayler is being sued for breaches of confidence and contract in relation to his work for the Security Service and infringing Crown copyright. In the High Court writ, dated 3 March, a Treasury solicitor claims that the "Mail on Sunday" paid Shayler œ40,000 for his information, as well as covering his legal fees and accommodations in France. The newspaper originally published the former agent's allegations about the part played by MI6 in the plot to assassinate Libyan leader, Colonel Qadhafi, in February 1996, and MI5's failure to prevent the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London. ...(cut)... To underline this point he gave the names of two serving MI6 officials -- David W ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 16 USA "GET DEUTCH" & "GET O'NEIL" AT THE CIA ...(cut)... On 10 March, the press announced that Terry R. Ward, the highest-ranking CIA official fired in a 1995 scandal for failing to inform Congress about human rights abuses in Guatemala will be awarded one of the agency's highest honors later this month. Ward, 62, former chief of the agency's Latin American Division, will reportedly receive the prestigious Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal on 23 March, recommended by former colleagues within the CIA Directorate of Operations (DO) and personally approved "without hesitation" by James Pavitt, the CIA deputy director for operations, even though the award is controversial. This is no coincidence, since it was Deutch who fired Ward and turned the DO over to David Cohen, a veteran analyst who had little background in espionage or covert action, and therefore was disliked by DO Cold Warriors. Deutch reportedly also made lasting enemies among CIA "Old Boys" by giving away a "CIA crown jewel", the National Photographic Interpretation Center, to help create a new Pentagon intelligence agency, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Deutch's choice for CIA general counsel, Michael O'Neil, was criticized and is also currently targeted by the "Old Boy" network and die-hard Cold Warriors because he is a liberal former Senate staffer who is considered by some conservatives to be the author of the so-called Boland amendment which prohibited US assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s ... and Guatemala, with its CIA-associated death squads is just around the corner. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 29 FRANCE INTERPOL SPROUTS ITS OWN COMPUTER WINGS ...(cut)... With bad news like that, "Intelligence" was happy to learn that, on 21 February, Interpol announced a "Prior Information Procedure" (Document number ND 27834-2000) concerning "Telecommunications network. Telecommunications services" with the intention, "between now and the end of the first semester" launching "a call for proposal for modernizing its international network of telecommunications and associated services." Interested parties should fax Interpol at 33 (0)4 72 44 72 46. "Intelligence" hopes that some "real Internet people" do apply and make themselves heard in Lyon. ...(cut)... ------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 32 NORWAY GLOBUS-II IS HAVE STARE ... IS "STAR WARS" ...(cut)... "It's for intelligence collection," said an unnamed former US Army space official quoted in the authoritative magazine, "Inside Missile Defense" (Vol. 4, N. 8, 15 April 1998). The official went on to speculate that because the US may be losing some of its early warning and military intelligence radar capabilities elsewhere, most notably in Turkey, the Vardo site could provide the Pentagon with an ideal backup. Have Stare was apparently considered for installation at Pirinclik, Turkey, which currently operates an American AN/FPS-79 tracking radar, following the December 1995 decommissioning of its AN/FPS-17 system. Have Stare will be "not a replacement but a surrogate" for such other systems in case they are shut down. Rear Admiral Richard West, deputy director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, told Congress in mid-1996 that "if needed," forward-based radars such as Have Stare and Cobra Dane, in Alaska, "could also be used to support the NMD system" as part of an upgraded early warning radar network." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 53 CHINA - Spies in Hong Kong and Macau Long Ago. China reportedly planted "several thousand spies" in Hong Kong for counter-espionage work and crime fighting before the return to Chinese rule in 1997, according to a recent press report. Supposedly, these state security intelligence officers helped in the arrest of crime boss, Cheung Tze-keung, executed on the mainland in 1998 for being behind the kidnapping of two Hong Kong tycoons. Some of the "spies" also reportedly went into Hong Kong prisons to befriend inmates and gather information. More than 3,000 state security intelligence officers were also dispatched to Macau for the enclave's handover to China on 20 December to maintain security and protect top Chinese officials attending the ceremony. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 113, 13 March 2000, p. 5( ASIA - "Buy a Gurkha" Anti-Piracy Policy. Anglo Marine Overseas Services Ltd, a British firm, is offering shipping companies the services of up to 300 ex-British Army Gurkhas to combat piracy, particularly in Asia. It has sent letters to international shipping companies offering "anti-piracy embarkation teams" of four to eight Gurkhas. The London-based company states that two Japanese shipping companies were now negotiating a possible contract. Pirate attacks worldwide surged 40 percent in 1999 from 1998. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said the number of actual and attempted pirate raids increased to 285 last year from 202 in 1998. Indonesia accounted for 113 of the attacks, almost double its 1998 total of 60. ---------------------------------------------